John Wingfield (priest)


John William Wingfield was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1979 to 1981.
Wingfield was educated at the Sheffield Pupil Teacher Centre; and served in the Royal Army Service Corps during World War II. When peace returned he studied at St Aidan's Theological College and was ordained in 1947. After a curacy at Madron with Morvah he held incumbencies at Perranuthnoe, Budock, St Michael Caerhays, Redruth and St Clement before his Archdeacon’s appointment.